Freitag, 18. Dezember 2009

- DIE KONFERENZ DER NACKTEN KAISERLEIN , Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "... Remember, we are dealing with a small amount of warming (concentrated in two relatively brief episodes) in an inadequately observed system. The proper null hypothesis is that there was no need whatsoever for external forcing in order to produce such behavior. The unsteady and even turbulent motions of the ocean and atmosphere are forever moving heat from one place to another on time scales from days to centuries and, in doing so, they leave the system out of equilibrium with the sun leading to fluctuations in temperature.The thought that these turbulent fluctuations demand specific causes is absurd -- almost as absurd as calling for specific causes for each whirl in a bubbling brook. ..." keynote address Sunday, March 8, 2009 at the second International Conference on Climate Change (s. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=richard+lindzen+global+warming&hl=de&client=safari&rls=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&oi=scholart )